On Jujitsu and Scrabble Culture

[redessence]

Last Tuesday I went with Jordan, my friend in Simi Valley in California, to watch him at jujitsu. He is training in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and various MMA (mixed martial arts) for a tournament in Las Vegas occurring in mid-March. The experience got me thinking about some important differences between this culture and Scrabble culture.

There are several

Comments

[xpmorgan]

anyone who has been to SF95 knows that we make no effort whatsoever to tell people to be quiet. we are noisy and make no apologies about it. scrabble is supposed to be fun, and we try to maintain a teaching ethos at the club - and a part of that ethos is being able to LAUGH when you goof up, and do it out loud, and have fun with it. club should be fun

[redessence]

I'm really enjoying the live feed stuff you guys are doing. Don't stop!

I've had a few ideas for tweeting after the Vegas experience. I think it would be great for big tournaments like Nationals, and I'll write about it soon enough.

[gijoel666]

"and dont even get me started on the nonsense of not wanting to be annotated

[xpmorgan]

the fixed position videocams are what we have been experimenting with in the Match Play. Ed DeGuzman has done two of these matches so far, and i think we all like where this idea is going. i personally would like to have a setup like this for the C.O. in early november, but we do need to run a few more test matches before then.

xp

[quinquennia]

https://plus.google.com/112687311582982179031/posts/RYobPSfYhEu

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